Literal Summer Reads

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Peter Spaulding (10 Lists)



The Screwtape Letters by C.S. LewisThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerOthello by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William ShakespeareThe Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best Books Ever
78,991 books — 294,125 voters
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Best Twentieth Century American Novels
325 books — 231 voters

The Hiding Place by Corrie ten BoomSong of Solomon by Toni MorrisonMy Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Best Books of the Decade: 1970s
1,956 books — 1,890 voters
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn RandWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyLes Misérables by Victor HugoInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Started) book ever
2,710 books — 13,276 voters

Watchmen by Alan MooreThe Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyA Time to Kill by John Grisham
Best Books of the Decade: 1980s
2,272 books — 2,437 voters
The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books of the Decade: 1990s
3,182 books — 3,685 voters

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled HosseiniFreedom by Jonathan FranzenThe Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
7,754 books — 14,423 voters
The History of Love by Nicole KraussNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyThe Corrections by Jonathan FranzenEverything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran FoerAtonement by Ian McEwan
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,272 books — 28,374 voters

The River Why by David James Duncan
Best Environmental Books
1,105 books — 1,267 voters
The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienTo the Lighthouse by Virginia WoolfThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerUlysses by James JoyceBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,876 books — 49,844 voters